Digital Transformation for the Process Industries: A Roadmap

This book shows how an organization can use technology and make culture changes to achieve operational excellence. It explains how a real-time data infrastructure can transform raw sensor data into contextualized information for operational insights and business process improvement. It also covers best practices for deploying real-time situational awareness alerts and predictive analytics, and how to transform an organization into a data-driven culture for continuous sustainable improvement. The target audience is process industries production and operations leadership, senior engineers, IT management, CIOs, and service providers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 286 pages
Publication date: 28 October 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imagine a world where your process manufacturing plants are operating at peak efficiency, meeting all production, safety, environmental, and profitability targets, allowing your subject matter experts to dedicate their time to data-driven business improvements. By properly utilizing and analyzing your existing operations data, your company can emerge as a leader in your industry, rewarding your stakeholders with remarkable success.

Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book provides a comprehensive step-by-step guide on how organizations can effectively leverage technology and implement the necessary cultural changes to achieve operational excellence. You will explore how several industry-leading companies have successfully implemented an effective real-time data infrastructure for mission-critical business use cases. The book also addresses the challenges involved, such as seamlessly integrating operational (OT) data with business (IT) systems to enable a more proactive and predictive management model for a fleet of process plants.

Here are some of the key takeaways from this book:

Learn how a real-time data infrastructure transforms raw sensor data into contextualized information, providing operational insights and driving business process improvement.

Understand the significant impact of reusing the same operational data across multiple use cases, including fleet management, profitability, and asset stewardship.

Discover how a simple digital unit template representing production flows can be utilized repeatedly to identify critical inefficiencies in plant operations.

Explore best practices for deploying real-time situational awareness alerts and predictive analytics, enabling you to make informed decisions and optimize your plant's performance.

Transform your organization into a data-driven culture, fostering continuous sustainable improvement and driving innovation.

Learn how leading companies integrate operations data and analytics to drive operational excellence and achieve competitive advantage.

By embracing the power of technology and implementing the principles outlined in this book, your organization can unlock new levels of efficiency, productivity, and profitability, positioning itself as a leader in your industry. So, why wait? Start your journey towards operational excellence today!

Weight: 626g
Dimension: 162 x 240 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367222376